roll-up! roll-up! whimsy will once again be at the i heart market this saturday (4 june)! it is the last market before the excitement of the house & garden show at the end of the month! i will be unveiling a whole new range of whimsy characters and items…keep checking in for more details and bulid up towards the show!
Posted in whimsy
in 2004, the new york times wrote an article about the loneliest whale in the world. scientists tracking her since 1992, have finally discovered the problem: she isn’t like any other baleen whale, she doesn’t belong to any tribe, pack or gang. she doesn’t have a mate and has never had one. the problem, the scientists have ascertained, is in her songs. her voice is unlike any other baleen whale. it is unique in the fact that her species communicate in songs between 12 – 25hz, and this whale sings at 52hz. thus no other whales can hear nor reply to this lonely creature’s calls to communicate. with every song, she becomes sadder and more frustrated, her notes going deeper in despair as the years go by. i can just imagine this massive mammal wandering the ocean – a solitary giant and its sad song…
Posted in idle thoughts, the menagerie
nicework is a jo’burg-based “communiations company of the design variety“. they are a team of savvy creatives who not only provide their clients with design solutions in branding, illustration, web-design, copyrighting & publishing but also produce a gorgeously slick e-zine. below is the small gifts package they bestow on their clients…i love the honey: cooler than jam… part of the parcel!
Posted in awesomeness, nice creatures, so-fine design
this is a brilliant info-graphic of odd & interesting facts by french graphic designer florent bodart (a.k.a. Speakerine)
{via nicework}
Posted in awesomeness, so-fine design
my little sister (i have two, younger than me, one is “my sister” and the other “my little sister”) sent me a link to canadian illustrator, marc john‘s blog. i am just tickled by his “everything wants to be a unicorn” series…
Posted in artworks, nice creatures
book city jackets has produced these wonderful “artists editions” to adorn your bookshelves and replace sad, tired-looking dust jackets. i love the battling robots design below!
Posted in artworks, i love words, so-fine design
i have a rapidly enlarging collection of blog recipes and thought what better way to share them with other foodies & food-styling fans than an A to Z recipe list? so i hope that, after browsing these few recipes, you feel inspired to raid the market, fire up the oven & arm yourself with culinary weaponry!
is for…avocado toasts via pinterest
is for… breakfast burritos via sprouted kitchen
is for…chocolate fudge cake via what katie ate
is for…dumplings & mushrooms via designsponge
is for…egg & spinach wraps via whole living
is for…feta & zucchini fritters via cook your deam
is for…grilled vegetable pizza via martha stewart
if for…hazelnut pie via what katie ate
is for…italian street food : piadinas via the kitchn
is for…japanese noodle bowl via BBC good food
is for…korean rice salad via wall street journal
is for…lemon meringue pie via sprouted kitchen
is for…mango-avocado salad via fresh 365
is for…naan bread via the pioneer woman
is for…orange pull-apart bread via the whisk kid
is for…panzanella via what katie ate
is for…quinoa salad via gluten-free goddess
is for…raspberry chocolate tart via my easy cooking
is for…summer salad via alexandra’s kitchen
is for…thai chicken & noodles via the parsley thief
is for…umeboshi & avo salad via tokyo terrace
is for…veggie sandwich via 101 cookbooks
is for…wild mushroom soup via scandi foodie
is for…x-factor cookies via raspberri cupcakes
{honestly, with many friends to back me up on this statement – this is the BEST choc-chip cookie recipe ever!}
is for…yoghurt almond cake via designsponge
is for…zucchini with tomatoes & basil via f+h+t
Posted in delicious, let them eat cake, Uncategorized
i am loving these! and very close to ordering a set. created by yuruliku and a receiver of a good design award in 2010, the green marker is a set of grass blade-style post-its that can double up as bookmarks to tell you in a horticultural fashion which page you are up to in your latest read…
Posted in awesomeness, so-fine design
these structures were commissioned by former yugoslavian president josip broz tito in the 1960s and 1970s to commemorate sites where world war II battles took place, or where concentration camps stood. they were designed by different sculptors and architects to convey the confidence and strength of the socialist republic. after the republic dissolved in early 1990s, they were completely abandoned.
between 2006 and 2009, documentary photographer jan kempenaers visited and documented the monuments. these striking images are the result of that journey…
{via nicework}
Posted in artworks
oh wow! oliver jeffers, one of my favourite artists and illustrators, has a new website. he has posted pages of his sketchbooks! feast your eyes…
Posted in artworks, nice creatures, scribbles
seems like “nautical” is a theme of the moment and i couldn’t be happier for it. being a coastal city girl, i have grown up next to the seemingly endless expanse of water, salt and sky, and cannot be without it. here are a couple of illustrators’ works with a oceanic motif, recently found through my friend cath at wolfeyebrows…
Posted in artworks, nice creatures, scribbles
i am the biggest calvin & hobbes fan, i could read those books day-in & day-out. so when i came across tom fowler‘s wonderfully size-specific illustration, i had to share it with you!
Posted in artworks, the menagerie
whimsy will once again be making an appearance at this month’s i heart market on saturday, 7 May. hope to see all manner of whimsy-loving creatures there!
Posted in whimsy
bryant austin is a photographer who produces life size photographs of whales! just the concept of creating a visual representation true to scale excites me, a lot like my previous leviathan art post. the second & third images are of his work: sperm whale composite 1 and its dimensions are 6 by 20 feet. the last image is a life-size photograph of a baby humpback whale. thus far austin has created 25 full scale images of whales…(read more)
Posted in artworks, the menagerie
how wonderful is this branding? it was designed for los angeles pie shop, i heart pies by christopher lee, a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator hailing from california. it is just so happily delicious!
{via cath at nicework}
Posted in nice creatures, so-fine design
finally, i have re-emerged from the palm forests of mozambique and am ready to unleash a flurry of posts! the first of which being to wish you all a happy Star Wars day (for yesterday, i just couldn’t get my post done in time)…so without further ado: “May the fourth be with you!”
{image via deviantart}
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